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Word: overgrew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...disease threatens with every drink from the nearby river. They fear betrayal. July can apparently keep the members of his extended family quiet, but perhaps "he could not prevent other people, living scattered round about, who knew the look of every thornbush, from discovering there were thornbushes that overgrew a white man's car, and passing on that information to any black army patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Future Tense | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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